SEBASTIEN LOEB has been crowned world rally champion for the third successive year courtesy of Marcus Gronholm’s failure to finish in the top four at the Rally Australia. Gronholm, the only driver with a mathematical chance of catching Loeb before the race, came home in fifth behind Ford team-mate Mikko Hirvonen. Loeb was absent for […]

Marcus Gronholm’s chances of winning this year’s World Rally Championship are hanging by a thread after he rolled his Ford Focus on an incident-packed day one of Rally Australia. The Finn hit a rock on stage three, which cost him 10 minutes and left him far behind leader and team-mate Mikko Hirvonen. Gronholm trails Sebastien […]

Marcus Gronholm took full advantage of Sebastien Loeb’s absence at the Rally of Turkey to keep alive his hopes of clinching this season’s championship. Gronholm, the 38-year-old from Finland, eased to victory after Petter Solberg crashed out late in the afternoon on the second day, cutting Loeb’s lead at the top of the standings to […]

A poor tyre choice cost former World Rally champion Colin McRae a top four spot on the opening day of the Rally of Turkey. The Scotsman was standing in for injured world champion and series leader Sebastien Loeb in the Kronos Total Citroen team. McRae, trying to maintain Citroen’s lead in the manufacturers’ championship standings […]